Sunday, January 3, 2021

2020: At Least It Was Good For Space Exploration?

 Between the pandemic, protests, the recession — the list goes on — there was big space news in 2020. And there was a lot of it! To round it up, Maddie chats with NPR science correspondents Nell Greenfieldboyce and Geoff Brumfiel.

SpaceX Crew Dragon launch, the first time in decades that NASA has launched astronauts to space in a new spaceship

China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission, which brought lunar rocks back to earth for the first time in over 40 years

A Japanese space capsule returned from a six-year mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Ryugu. The five-gram sample is the largest ever returned from an asteroid.

Scientists discovered that outer space is brighter than suspected.

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